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eBooks The beauties of English poesy: Selected by Oliver Goldsmith. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5320
eBooks An essay on gleets: wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated. By J. P. Marat, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3766
eBooks Captains Courageous : a story of the Grand Banks https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3265
eBooks Clump and Cudden: or, the review: a comic musical piece, in one act, as it is performed at the Royal Circus. Written and composed by Mr. Dibdin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3340
eBooks Observations on the gout and rheumatism: Exhibiting instances of persons who were greatly relieved in the fit of the gout; ... by medicines discovered in America. With a short account of some medicines, and ways of curing diseases, used by the nat... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5542
eBooks Proposals for publishing a new and improved edition of Shakspeare illustrated. By Charlotte Lennox https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3414
eBooks The mystery revealed; containing a series of transactions and authentic testimonials: respecting the supposed Cock-Lane ghost: which have hitherto been concealed from the public. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5081
eBooks The first epistle of the first book of Horace imitated: By Mr. Pope. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3677
eBooks Remarks on a printed paper, lately handed about, intituled, "A catalogue of the sacred vessels restored by Cyrus: ... " Addressed to all such gentlemen as have received or read the same. By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3559
eBooks The siege of Troy: or, famous Trojan horse, a grand heroic, ... spectacle, in two parts, ... as performing ... at the new amphitheatre of arts, Westminster-bridge, under the immediate direction ... of Mr. Astley, jun. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3483
eBooks The man with two wives: or, wigs for ever! A dramatick fable; by F. G. Waldron. Set to musick by Mr. Sanderson. And first performed at the Royalty Theatre, Saturday, March 24th. 1798. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3743
eBooks Fashionable levities, a comedy: In five acts. By Leonard Macnally, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4443
eBooks Verses upon the late D----ss of M----: By Mr. P------. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3703
eBooks Henry the Second: or, the fall of Rosamond: a tragedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Written by Thomas Hull. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3565
eBooks The happy prescription; or, the lady relieved from her lovers: a comedy, in rhyme. Written for a private theatre, by William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4750
eBooks A vindication of the forceps described and recommended by Dr. Leake: in which, the injudicious and illiberal remarks on that subject, signed Thomas Denman, are examined and refuted. By a late pupil of Dr. Leake's. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5678
eBooks An account of the great and generous actions of James Butler: (late Duke of Ormond.) Dedicated to the famous University of Oxford. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4254
eBooks The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke HVMFREY. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5697
eBooks Elements of criticism: In three volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3916
eBooks Selected Stories https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3046
eBooks A collection of songs, selected from the works of Mr. Dibdin: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4686
eBooks A MIDSOMMER Nights Dreame. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5714
eBooks Seventeen hundred and ninety-one: a poem, in imitation of the thirteenth satire of Juvenal. By Arthur Murphy, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4174
eBooks The case of Samuel Richardson, of London, printer: with regard to the invasion of his property in The history of Sir Charles Grandison, before publication, by certain booksellers in Dublin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3817
eBooks A collection of poems in three volumes. By several hands: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4974
eBooks Tawny Rachel, or, the fortune teller; with some account of dreams, omens and conjurers https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4205
eBooks The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, ... In two volumes. By James Boswell, Esq. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4412
eBooks The tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A pastoral: Lamenting the death of the late Lord Marquis of Blanford. ... By Mr. Congreve. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3778
eBooks Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c: By an English officer. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4717
eBooks Narrative, of a five years' expedition; against the revolted negroes of Surinam: in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: ... By Captn. J. G. Stedman. illustrated with 80 elegant engravings, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5357
eBooks A supplement to the tour through Great-Britain: containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, ... by the late Mr. Gray, ... To which are now added, by another hand, several additions; ...Catalogue of the antiquities https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3491
eBooks An apology for the life of Mr. T......... C....., comedian: Being a proper sequel to the Apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, ... Supposed to be written by himself. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4570
eBooks Hermione, or the orphan sisters: A novel. In four volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5265
eBooks A narrative of the method by which the private letters of Mr. Pope have been procur'd and publish'd by Edmund Curll, bookseller. NB. The original papers, in Curl's own hand, may be seen at T. Cooper's https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3687
eBooks Two great questions considered: I. What is the obligation of Parliaments to the addresses or petitions of the people, ... II. Whether the obligation of the Covenant or other national engagements, is concern'd in the Treaty of Union? Being a sixth ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4551
eBooks A treatise of human nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3631
eBooks The so much talk'd of and expected old woman's Dunciad: Or, midwife's master-piece ... By Mary Midnight. With historical, critical, and explanatory notes, by Margelina Scribelinda Macularia. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4357
eBooks An essay towards a definition of animal vitality: read at the theatre, Guy's Hospital, January 26, 1793; in which several of the opinions of the celebrated John Hunter are examined and controverted. By John Thelwall, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5539
eBooks An address to the people of England: being the protest of a private person against every suspension of law that is liable to injure or endanger personal security. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3573
eBooks Proposals for recovering persons apparently dead by drowning and suffocation from other causes. Published by order of the Governors of the Dispensary https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5638
eBooks Poems by Mr. Jerningham: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5204
eBooks The American crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3325
eBooks The airs, duetts, trios and chorusses, &c. in The prophet: a comic opera, in three acts; performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3827
eBooks Capt. Dampier's vindication of his voyage to the South-Seas in the ship St. George: With some small observations ... on Mr. Funnel's chimerical relation of the voyage round the world; ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4942
eBooks Airs, duets, trios, &c. in the new comic opera, called Love finds the way. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5418
eBooks The history of England: from the earliest times to the death of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5330
eBooks Epistles to Lorenzo https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3515
eBooks The maid of the oaks: a new dramatic entertainment. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4031
eBooks A challenge of peace, address'd to the whole nation: With an enquiry into ways and means for bringing it to pass. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3937
eBooks A genuine narrative of the memorable life and actions of John Dyer, (who was executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 21st day of November, 1729.) containing, a particular relation of all the notorious and surprising facts by him committed ... Wrote by h... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4615